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Rebuilding Sprague Electrolytics - HELP
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Hey Ed

I did manage to get most of the pieces of the Sprague bakelite base glued back together today. Photos later. Now we'll see how it holds up...

I restuffed a second Sprague can today. Unfortunately, trying to roll the cut edge back over did not go well and left a gap between the bottom of the can and the round, flat connection on the 70 chassis. So I ended up soldering not one, but two pieces of 14 gauge wire to the bottom of the can where it was (poorly) rolled back over, in order to establish contact between the bottom of the can and the negative terminal on the 70 chassis.

Tomorrow, after thinking this over some more, I may try restuffing the first can I opened up. I may try Bob's (klondike98) method of adding a wire for a negative terminal to the bottom of the can this time as shown here: https://philcoradio.com/phorum/showthrea...#pid111864

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Ron Ramirez
Ferdinand IN


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RE: Rebuilding Sprague Electrolytics - HELP - by Ron Ramirez - 05-25-2019, 10:25 PM



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